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“I had thought of the New Testament to be impure, a source of pride, of selfishness, of hatred, and of the worst kind of violence, but as I opened it I felt myself peculiarly and wonderfully taken...
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“We are all surrounded by things which we apprehend but cannot comprehend.” Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, God in Search of Man The post Quote of the Week appeared first on The Jerusalem Connection...
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“Freedom begins with what we teach our children. That is why Jews became a people whose passion is education, whose heroes are teachers and whose citadels are schools. Nowhere is this more evident than...
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“We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy. I find more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history whatever.” – Isaac Newton The post Quote of the Week...
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As the historian of antisemitism looks back over the millennia of horrors he has recorded, an inescapable conclusion emerges: Antisemitism is the longest and deepest hatred of human history. Other...
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“From beginning to end, the Holy Scriptures testify that the predicament of fallen humanity is so serious, so grave, so irremediable from within, that nothing short of divine intervention can rectify...
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“In its collective fate and destiny, Israel will constitute the most compelling evidence of divine involvement in human history.” Rabbi Jonathan Sacks The post Quote of the Week appeared first on The...
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“Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.” Thomas Bender, Intro to Democracy in America, abr. Ed., by Alexix de Tocqueville The post Quote of the Week appeared first...
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” A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.” Max Lucado The post Quote of the Week appeared first on The Jerusalem Connection Report.
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“In Israel, in order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles.” David Ben Gurion, the First Prime Minister of Israel The post Quote of the Week appeared first on The Jerusalem Connection Report.
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“When I was a child, Israel was a legend more than a reality. She emerged from a dream, and today she has surpassed that dream.” Shimon Peres, former President of Israel The post Quote of the Week...
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“Work is a blessing. God has so arranged the world that work is necessary, and He gives us hands and strength to do it. The enjoyment of leisure would be nothing if we had only leisure. It is the joy...
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“Twenty-two centuries ago, when Israel was under the rule of the empire of Alexander the Great, one particular leader, Antiochus IV, decided to force the pace of Hellenisation, forbidding Jews to...
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“If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.” Abba Eban The post Quote of the Week...
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“Christ has no hands but our hands.” Prayer of St. Teresa of Avila The post Quote of the Week appeared first on The Jerusalem Connection Report.
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“Jesus brought a double goodness to the world. On the one hand he strengthened the Torah of Moses majestically… and not one of our Sages spoke out more emphatically concerning the immutability of the...
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“We have sincerely tried everywhere to merge with the national communities in which we live, seeking only to preserve the faith of our fathers. It is not permitted us. In vain are we loyal patriots,...
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If only I could roam through those places where God was revealed to your prophets and heralds! Who will give me wings, so that I may wander far away? I would carry the pieces of my broken heart over...
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“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”—C.S. Lewis The post Quote of the Week appeared first on The...
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“When I was a young Christian, I thought that God kept His gifts on shelves and the best gifts were on the highest shelves and I would have to reach up. I learned later the best gifts are on the lowest...
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